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ben_vulpes: why do people^H^H^H^H^H^Hbarbarians insist on
this moronic 2-column publishing style
ben_vulpes: [sets] up a game of verbal smoke and mirrors
to suggest
ben_vulpes: referred
to as obscurantism (p. 1): “[when]
the speaker...
ben_vulpes: phenomenon is similar
to what Buekens and Boudry (2015)
BingoBoingo: Oil industry
too? Not mucus but still has lubricant.
ben_vulpes: congratulations on surviving
the bubble attempt mircea_popescu
mats: what an excellent
troll
shinohai: Will remember
to add
the archive.is links next
time
though BingoBoingo,
thanks
BingoBoingo: Congrats
to shinohai on his first qntra piece
punkman: Vandwellers”, about people living on
the verge of poverty having
to live a nomadic life in horse drawn moving vans."
punkman: "The history of Vandwelling goes back
to horse drawn vehicles such as Roma Vardo wagons in Europe, and covered Conestoga wagons in
the United States. One of
the first uses of
the
term Vandwellers was in
the United Kingdom showman and Van Dwellers' Protection Association, a guild for
travelling show performers formed in
the late 1800s. Shortly afterwards in 1901, Albert Bigalow wrote “The
punkman: /me remembers a hospital visit
that concluded in a
thunderous fart while doctor was palpating
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>
that was where she lifted
the interesting part. << lol nicely put, what meaning is contemplated ? "she [metaphorical person] lifted her skirt, rather
than shoes and sleeves and whatnot random insanities" "she [interlisp author] stole
the good bits for once, rather
than dubious ux or w/e"
mircea_popescu: (in fact,
the lulzy otp discussion last week was EXACTLY re proven absence of meaning)
kakobrekla: i am not defending
the implementation, just
that
there might be some merit
to
the ideas presented
there. why do you chart v patches?!
mircea_popescu: you can prove
that meaning is impossible, just not
trivially.
mircea_popescu: it can be, but it's a much
tougher nut
than generally understood.
mircea_popescu: i don't see what drawing
the matrix adds, either. arguing
to ignorance alfie ?
mircea_popescu: but allowing one rotten apple in rots
the set, and allowing one lazy slavegirl ruins
the lot and so on.
mircea_popescu: actually, let's cut
the discussion
to a particularly comfortable example :
the internet was "going
to open up human knowledge". instead it has created
the WORST fucking style of prose
the english language has ever known.
tedious, humourless but contrived, inept and coming up short in all measures, from cracked
to wikipedia
the language is bleeding.
there is not more knowledge but less, and even its clothes are haggard
kakobrekla: somewhere in
the logs where you pasted a pic of a
triple integral or somesuch
kakobrekla: and
to
think current setup is optimal seems far fetched
to me.
mircea_popescu: now how do i, as a
third party, resolve
this dispute ?
kakobrekla: actually without 'code generators' your computer is useless, its just a matter of how away from
the bedrock your abstraction is
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for
the sake of argument, consider
this issue : <asciilifeform> but
the hamilton
thing is garbage. ; hamiltoninc : "Here are some properties and features
that make 001 unique: Always number one when put
to
the
test."
mircea_popescu: for
that matter,
the move from asm
to c/basic HAS resulted in shittier programs
throughout.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile medicine goes
through
the same process as we speak, and
the deleterious effects are pointedly obvious.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla while he is stuck in a very hard
to defend middle, still, i gotta say
this "code generators" line you're arguing has a lot in common with
the "betterment"
that was
to come from autocading all architecture.
mircea_popescu: "hey, at least i don't live in
the projects. i choose who rapes me!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> In absurdly popular subreddits, /r/vandwellers/ has 26,000+ subscribers << i suspect living in a van will be
the new middle class in
the us.
kakobrekla: this is like claiming 'you still need
to machine code' in
the seventies
kakobrekla: im not claiming
the linked implementation is worth much but i suspect it has some good ideas, like not 'writing code' anymore.
kakobrekla: i suspect we need
to break out of
this 'writing code'
thing we do, like we did with machine code.
kakobrekla: do you suggest
the current level of abs is
the best
there is and ever will be
kakobrekla: afaik home computers werent good for much before
the 'basic' came around
copypaste: asciilifeform: it's business if you can cash into BTC; not whether you have
the foresight
to do so, but whether you have
the ability
to
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla 17 Inman Street Cambridge,Massachusetts02139, 1-5mn revenue, 10-20 employees. looks like one of
the [very numerous, usually derpy] some-guys-on-mit-campus-incorporeted-a-something deals.
kakobrekla: compiler? it generates
the code
to be compiled. apparently can generate ada
too.
BingoBoingo: sign and encrypt it and get
the
text
to me somehow.
shinohai: BingoBoingo: where
to send poo in loo submission when finished?
assbot: Logged on 14-02-2016 14:18:39; kakobrekla:
http://www.htius.com <
this looks sort of interesting, anyone got a comment on it?
BingoBoingo: "so he would stop shitting class of Americans
that apires
to productivity"
punkman: ah apparently some Apollo mission
thing, built on Ada
shinohai: "The Indian Government declined
to comment as
to whether
they would also provide a
toilet
to Preet Bharara, so he would stop shitting in American streets and court buildings."
BingoBoingo: Anyways I
thought most areas in India where
this is popular
they generally had designated shitting fields.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Because Qntra points out ACTUAL oppression like
this.
shinohai: Because Qntra is dedicated
to preserving Indian rights
to shit in
the street?
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Now's your chance
to audition for qntra. You've got a story, now your headline is "Indian Government And Banks Suppressing Cornerstone Of Local Culture"
kakobrekla: cant
tell you anything more
than what
the pages says
BingoBoingo: Seriously. Reddit level AI bot was linking nothing but facebook and such a variety of
things
there's no other way
to prevent it from reemerging.
mircea_popescu: hey,
they wanna be on qntra let
them use our advertising platform.
BingoBoingo: In other news facebook.com in any part of a comment
to qntra no longer passes go, goes straight
to hell never
to be seen.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Out of 50
these were
the only ones of interest
BingoBoingo: Her eyes all glazed over; her body shaking. She never was
the same dog after
the Boingo house
that fateful Halloween night.
BingoBoingo: Another machine generated gem: Stop screaming I was
thknniig wait
that was me screaming. Where is Cream Puff? I
told
them we shouldn’t come
to
the Boingo house. Everyone knows it’s haunted.
There are all sorts of wicked smells coming from
the basement and now
the basement has Cream Puff. Who knew what sort of ghoulish
things
they may do
to her
then I see her … it’s Cream Puff I
think….she came from
the back of
the house.
BingoBoingo: a dark figure in
the corner started moving
toward me. I
tried
to roll out of bed but realized my feet were
tied
to
the bed. What
the hell was happening?"
BingoBoingo: Apparently a new spambot
turn on while I was sleeping: "I sat up in a cold sweat. Had someone's hand rellay been over my mouth or was I dreaming. My hotel room was pitch black save for
the dim glow of my laptop screen.
The Boingo application blinked angrily at me as
the wifi had obviously been interrupted suddenly. My midnight snack, a half-eaten cream puff, lay awkwardly on
the floor.Suddenly, I heard a wicked scream just before
mircea_popescu: (actually -
this is a pretty well represented subculture, contrary
to what intuition may be
telling you)
punkman: actually surprised
that no altcoin inventor yet has come up with ransomware as a feature